EMH EarlyModernHistory

January Meeting 2.30pm Saturday 8th January 2022 King Charles I – Martyr or Tyrant by Dr David Smith Cambridge University. On Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89012164046 Meeting ID: 890 1216 4046 The lecture will investigate the personality, beliefs and policies of Charles I,

17 January 2022. '"Letters of no importance?" Elizabeth Bourne (1549-1599) and the violence of the archive'. Daniel Starza Smith (KCL) and Leah Veronese (Balliol). 31 January 2022. 'Administrative Architecture: Locating the Exchequer in Mid-Tudor Government'. Kristy Wright (York) Conciliar Connections: Prosopography in the Mid-Tudor Privy Council: Connor Huddlestone (Bristol). 14 February 2022. '"A land so distressed without war': economic crisis, the commission for trade, and anti-monopoly petitioning in Jacobean England (c1622-1624)'. Ellen Paterson (Lincoln College, Oxford) TBC. Simon Healy. 28 February 2022. 'Global Cheshire? The Moretons of Moreton Hall and their Worlds'. Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) 14 March 2022. 'Closed Archive, Virtual Rooms: negotiating the Middling Culture project through the pandemic'. Tara Hamling (Birmingham) and Catherine Richardson (Kent).

Подсчет поместья: опровергнут ответ профессора Стоуна В феврале 1972 года в « Обзоре экономической истории» была опубликована моя статья, в которой анализировались оценки земельного дохода и богатства владений пэра, представленные профессором Лоуренсом Стоуном в его книге «Кризис аристократии» 1558–1641 . Я утверждал, что на основе его статистики можно было использовать основные показатели в качестве индикаторов средних значений усадеб, принадлежащих разным группам сверстников в 1558/9, 1602 и 1641 годах, и что, как следствие, подсчеты манориалов нельзя полагаться в качестве индикаторов изменения земельного богатства.[1] .[2] Я покажу здесь, что возражения профессора Стоуна в моих отношениях ошибочно и его очевидное устранение вариаций среднегодовых манориальных значений основано на прямом предположении, что они не существуют. Пересчет переселенцев Принципы, на которых была построена моя статья, были относительно просты. Прежде всего, я принял цифры для земельного дохода и ...

I see from The Times newspaper last Monday (29 November, 2021) that Universities UK, the body that represents Vice-Chancellors, has produced a briefing paper on the lessons that have been learnt from the covid pandemic about the advantages provided by online learning. The Vice-Chancellors thought that, in future, there were potential benefits to be gained from digital teaching if the necessary equipment and technology could be provided. Naturally enough, there have been fears raised about a cost-cutting exercise within the university system. I do not think there is anything particularly surprising in this approach: after all, the Open University has been using distance learning techniques for several decades and the advantages of creating a repository for digital lectures and seminars has been obvious for a very long time. I suspect we shall be hearing a lot more about such possibilities in the future.

The Daily Telegraph carried an opinion piece by Andrew Lilico, the Executive Director and Principal of Europe Economics, last Saturday (27th November, 2021) reflecting on the growth of "wokeness" tests in U.K. universities which require students to provide "correct" answers to questions on progressive topics. He also commented on the development of attempts to deny platforms within universities to speakers whose views were regarded as controversial by those who disagreed with their positions. His remedy was not to impose new rules on existing universities requiring them to protect free expression but rather to create new "non-woke" or more tolerant institutions. Students could then choose which type of institution they wished to attend. At present, the U.K. has 133 universities across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales with several hundred thousands of students. I am definitely not persuaded that more universities can be created or funded under anything...

I made my first visit to the Essex Record Office in 1954 in the company of my father. It was then located in the main building of County Hall in Chelmsford and was the domain of F.G.Emmison, the archivist who was building its reputation as the leading local repository in England at that time. I do not remember meeting him but do recall seeing Hilda Grieve and Nancy Briggs, who were two of his assistants. They were the first female intellectuals I had ever met and made a big impression on me as schoolboy. It was not until 1965 that I went back as a postgraduate working on the career of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. Hilda Grieve and Nancy Briggs were still there but had been joined by Gus Edwards (later Nancy Briggs's husband), Ken Newton, and Arthur Searle in the new archive office on London Road. I spent most of 1966-67 in the Record Office where I became aware of the feelings of the staff towards Emmison as their boss: this was a surprise to me and a relief to them when he ret...